Douglas Adams Hofstadter, Hauke, NPR puzzle, Watson, Edelman

[Tomoyuki Tanaka]

http://www1.shore.net/~ndm/java/mmexplorer1/mmset.html

some more interesting GEB-related things i noticed recently:
Douglas Adams Hofstadter, Hauke, NPR puzzle, Watson,
Edelman ... in this order.

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Author: Ted Frank <m...@Radix.Net>
Date: 2000/11/30 : alt.sci.joe-bay

"Sorry, mister, it's giant pulsating space lobsters
all the way down."
-- Douglas Adams Hofstadter

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Re: Bach to Escher

Hauke Reddmann <fc3...@math.uni-hamburg.de> wrote:
>
>First reverse BACH:
>HCAB
>This evidently is Computer-Lingo (which programming
>language??) for the hex number CAB=3243.
>Reverse back: 3423
>Now turn around your pocket calculator:
>EZhE
>OK, sue me for farfetchedness :-)

interesting. my first reaction was ...

in the USA, 3 alphabetic letters are assigned to a number on
a telephone for mnemonics. (e.g. 1-800 CALL-ATT)

so BACH is 2224. i thought maybe you can work with these
for BACH, GEB, ESCHER, etc.

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: NPR puzzle synopsis for 2000-07-02
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=641502838

The Current Challenge (given July 2, 2000):

This comes from the mathematician Douglas Hofstadter, but it
is a word puzzle: take the name of a very small creature in
four letters. Change the 2nd letter in this word to the next
letter of the alphabet, and you'll get the name of another,
much larger creature. What is it?

[hint: it's not mole->mule]

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http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001124/sc/sunshine_sex_1.html

: Nobel Winner's Genetic Theories Strike Many as Racist, Sexist
http://www.deja.com/=dnc/getdoc.xp?AN=693771698

Unfortunately, said Botchan, Watson advanced his hypothesis
with comments that were crude and sexist and potentially
racist. But Botchan, who did post-graduate work under Watson,
said he doesn't think the Nobel laureate is racist or sexist,
merely insensitive.
[...]

For instance, Botchan said, Watson once suggested Japan should
be bombed for dragging its feet on supporting the Human Genome
Project.

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Edelman on consciousness

i learned about Edelman's work recently from a PBS show hosted
by Alan Alda. it seems that a good book came out in March.

URL: http://www.krasnow.gmu.edu/ascoli/universe.html

Abstract: This essay is a commentary on Edelman and Tononi's
A Universe of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination,
a scientific book on the mind-body relationship.

[...]

In A Universe of Consciousness (Basic Books, NY, 2000),
Gerald Edelman and Giulio Tononi face the mind-body problem
straight up, guiding the readers hand-by-hand through a
fascinating and exciting journey of 222 intense pages.